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Mobile devices are essential to the daily life of most people on the planet Earth. And with the help of wireless technology, we have enjoyed watching mobile's scope and capabilities broaden. We went from using our phones rarely to text, to using them to check our email, stream new music,

Your devices and products might look the same as they did before they got connected and smart. Even so, they’re fundamentally different. Now they’re members of a larger community of processes, products, and stakeholders. Ensuring your products are capable of filling these new roles is a serious design

You're reading this now, but it's not the first time you've known the value of a mobile-friendly site and the revenue that can be generated. Mobile is hot and it's here to stay. Therefore, it's time for your business to start thinking about going mobile friendly. But why…? Why Mobile

If you have a great idea for a mobile app, you may be wondering just how you can turn this great idea into a reality. Fortunately, the process of developing a mobile app isn't as difficult or as complex as you may think, especially if you have some programming skills.

There is no doubt that the Internet of Things is the next big tech trend that will be hitting businesses around the globe, and revolutionizing the way we interact with our world. With the ability to incorporate a vast variety of different devices, as well as utilize an adaptable network

IoT the path forward & where you fit in Most conversations around the Internet of Things (IoT) has descended into a blend of equal parts hype and reality. Hype, about the potential of billions of devices communing, paving the way for a more profitable and productive future, and the reality

Firebase vs. CloudKit vs. Kinvey Mobile Backend-as-a-Service or MBaaS was born to allow mobile developers who were short on time and wanted to build solutions by taking advantage of the latest features in a mobile device as well as manage complex service commands. The early leader in this nascent space

Whether you're researching mobile development companies for the first time or you're looking to develop your next version iOS and Android apps, you should prepare to answer questions about your mobile app project. During the request for proposal (RFP) process, share information openly with all vendors to ensure each vendor

At CognitiveClouds, we deliver high-quality software products to our startup and enterprise clients, designing and architecting impressive web, mobile, and table products. We have worked hard to establish ourselves as a leading development company in our industry, working closely with our clients to reach and exceed their goals. Recently, our

Firebase started out as a cloud database which grew to include notifications, authentication, and other features. At face value, it looks interesting, allowing mobile devices to load and store data using the Firebase API, eliminating the need for owning any back-end server or hosting. To keep in sync easily, it’

More and more people are learning how to make smartphone apps these days. It's generally well-understood these days that app development is one of the most promising new careers. People all over the world are using smartphones, and smartphones have a tremendous capacity for new apps. Many smartphone enthusiasts can't

Today, most tech jobs come with a flexible schedule. Nobody wants a team of stressed out, overworked and underpaid developers working on their project. No matter how strong the passion for your job is starting out, to sustain this passion, one needs balance and the ability to prioritize. When you

Since the 1960s, cloud computing has allowed us to take advantage of its manageability and elasticity. It gave us the power to own a new server. It opened a whole new door to higher level platform services like API gateways, queues, authentication and more. Are we to embrace serverless next?

As consumers change from using stationary computing devices to mobile devices, companies have had to rush to adjust to this new trend in consumer computing behaviors. Mobile devices have smaller screen spaces and often have less computing power. This means companies need to create interfaces for their customers that are

If you’ve already started shopping for the right vendors or freelancers to work on your MVP, you would have come across the huge disparity in the prices they quote. Often the disparity in the prices they quote is so huge that you begin to wonder whether all those prices

There’s no escaping JavaScript when it comes to building a Rails application. Whether we prefer it or not from a small script to a full-blown JavaScript framework websites, have become far more dependent on JavaScript. Back in the day, all you needed was a single stylesheet for a project.

Often, people tend to water down the message in the contract to translate to how money exchanges hands, when in reality it will dictate a lot more than this. The contract will drive the behavior of engagement, timelines, and more. No matter the engagement model you choose to go with,

As consumers and businesses grow more and more dependent on their mobile devices for more than just communication, you must be quick in developing applications. There might be several factors behind your decision to outsource your app development, such as time and cost saving, but you must ensure you do

Node.js gave us cutting-edge web applications with two-way, real-time connections where both the client and server could communicate with each other. A stark contrast to the conventional web response paradigm where only the client initiates communication. It’s quite similar to what Ruby On Rails and ASP.NET have

Change by its nature, is hard in the beginning, messy in the middle and worthwhile in the end if the transition goes well. Handing over a SaaS development project from one company to another, midway is bound to get messy. The project manager who has to take over your project

Node.js has played a significant role in the widespread adoption and popularity of JavaScript. The popularity of Node.js, based on Google’s V8 JavaScript engine can be attributed to the speed and efficiency it provides the development environment. The platform makes it easy enough to get started on

Designing software can be very expensive. Programmers can cost hundreds of dollars an hour and those hours will add up. This is a difficult cost to absorb for many companies’ research and development budgets. To make matters even worse it is hard to predict the success of a new software

If you currently head a startup or are thinking of creating one in the near future, it is vital that you learn as much as possible about customer acquisition strategies. In the beginning, the vast majority of startups struggle significantly to find customers. This is because very few people are